Hi James,

Can you give me a little more detail about your deployment? It sounds like you may be trying to deploy via an ISO with Ironic; which isn't really something we directly support.

You do have some choices:

- You can boot an ISO ephemerally using Ironic's ramdisk driver. This is unlikely to be what you want unless you're certain.

- You can use a tool like diskimage-builder ( https://docs.openstack.org/diskimage-builder/latest/ ) to build a bare metal image suitable for deployment.

- You can attempt to use a prebuilt cloud image from Ubuntu; but this may not work as such images often are missing required drivers for physical bare metal.

Can you provide more detail about your installation if these aren't on the right track -- thanks!

Jay Faulkner

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:41 PM James Leong <jamesleong123098@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
I am trying to play around with ironic, and I am having an issue with deploying an Ubuntu 20.04 ISO image onto my bare metal node. Since I am quite new to bare metal, I am not entirely sure what went wrong as I couldn't find any error messages shown on my log file (ironic-conductor, ironic-api, ironic_neutron_agent, and nova-compute-ironic). This might be my guess; the ironic inspection is hitting timeout, which is causing the deployment to timeout. However, I have no idea why the inspection is failing at timeout. Any help would be appreciated.
Best,
James